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Today’s hairbrained baking adventures

By E on October 3, 2010

I had wholewheat flour that needed using. And half a tin of tomato cocktail. Throw some horseradish in the mix, and I give you Bloody Mary Bagels. OK, so my bagel rolling techniques need practice, and perhaps the colour and general appearance is a little too reminiscent of that favourite item of #TAPL. But just [...]

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Bunny chow

By E on September 25, 2010

First, catch your rabbit. Or get your friendly German butcher to get someone to catch it for you, and then ask him to cut it into nice little pieces that in no way resemble the Easter bunny (meaning he can keep the ears, eyes, and everything else). Then arrange them in a roasting tin with [...]

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Dinner for one

By E on September 17, 2010

It is rare that I eat alone – and not at all ideal, I might add, simply because try as I might, I cannot by myself conjure up the delightful banter that the Philosophe (co-)provides on a daily basis. Not to mention that it is nowhere near as interesting trying to impress myself with delicious [...]

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Not so excellent

By E on August 30, 2010

Here are the things you may not do on the Wheel of Excellence: In other words, no slouching about looking cool (thanks to the Philosophe for the articulate picto-analysis), no throwing out the Rock when you’re playing *that* game, and no showing off the soles of your shoes. You are also not permitted to smoke, [...]

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The blue Cosmopolitan that was

By E on August 21, 2010

I’ve been nurturing a craving for cosmopolitan(s). I blame the sun, which has been shining on Cape Town a most unusual amount this “winter”, and has caused more than one person to utter the words “spring has sprung” in the last two weeks. First spring, then summer, and before we know it, the silly season [...]

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The martini that never was

By E on August 14, 2010

Once, at our favourite drinking hole, the Philosophe and I had the audacity to question whether our vodka-and-limes had been watered down because (double shots though they were) we couldn’t taste the vodka. Much to our embarrassment, it was simply because they had used a superior (=more expensive) brand of vodka, one clearly too sophisticated [...]

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Getting what you ask for

By E on August 8, 2010

Anthony Bourdain once challenged the audience at one of his speaking gigs to “Go home and Google Sandra Lee and Kwanzaa cake and … count how long it’s going to take for your head to explode.” And in another interview: “Watch that clip and tell me your eyeballs don’t burst into flames.” So of course [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Rants | Tagged Anthony Bourdain, coconut cake, Kwanzaa cake, Sandra Lee, Sex and the City 2 | 1 Response

Things you don’t want to know – but probably should

By E on July 29, 2010

I recently watched a new Danish film called The Woman That Dreamed About A Man (or Kvinden der drømte om en mand, if you’re a native). It’s certainly not director Per Fly’s best work, but decent enough psycho-thriller entertainment when that’s what you need. Anyway, there’s one of those typically raunchy scenes when two strangers [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Rants | Tagged Anthony Bourdain, cooking, food media, KFC Double Down, Medium Raw, Michael Pollan, steak, stuffed steak | Leave a response

Country eating..and eating…and still eating

By E on July 21, 2010

When you are invited to spend the weekend contemplating scenery like this, it is only proper that you devote a few days to thinking about food before the fact, so that nothing can get in the way of two days of carefully planned indolence (not to mention that there are no shops, so if you [...]

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Strawberries soaked in vodka fail to impress

By E on July 11, 2010

So after my recent bold declaration that this Doctor’s brownie adventures are officially over, I was naturally confronted with all sorts of Facebook banter offering yet more tips and tricks for that thing I had just renounced. The most evil of these was a recipe which calls for cocoa powder dissolved in hot water (rather [...]

Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Jamie Oliver, Posts, Rants | Tagged 30 minute meals, brownies, celebrity chefs, food media, Jamie Oliver, rachael ray | Leave a response

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